Drastic muscle wasting following surgery is a strong predictor of prognosis in early-stage pancreatic cancer-a Taiwanese multicenter cohort study.
OBJECTIVE To clarify the impact of preoperative sarcopenia and muscle wasting postoperative on the short- and long-term outcomes following pancreatectomy in resectable pancreatic cancer (PC) patients. SUMMARY BACKGROUND DATA Previous studies revealed that sarcopenia, defined as generalized loss of skeletal muscle mas...